Clothes-wringer



(ModeL) J. TODD.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

Patented Feb.27, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES TODD, OF PITTSBURG, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN CLEMENS, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,990, dated February 27, 1883.

Application filed November 10, 1882. (Modeh) To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JAMES TODD, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Pittsburg, county of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Ulothes-Wringer, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-wringers in which horizontally-reciprocating rubber-covered rollers are operated by means of a crank.

The object of my improvements is to provide a compact, serviceable, and durable wringer, so arranged in its several parts that they may be shipped by themselves and easily put together by any unskilled person, thereby greatly facilitating its domestic transportation and its exportation to foreign countries and its use there.

My device is illustrated by the accompany ing drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view; Fig. 2, an end view, and Figs. 3 and at views of parts.

My device is also illustrated by the model filed with-this application.

My device should be made of suitable metal.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters refer to similar parts throughout my device.

H is the spring-cap, which is held in place by means of the indentures d d in the spring 0. B is the arched top cross-bar for'binding together the end pieces of the Wringer-frame. It is provided with upturned hooks at its outer extremities, which are adapted to engage staples on the upper extremities of the end frames.

O is the bottom binding cross-bar. It is provided with journals, on the outer ends of which are hook-shaped projections, which are adapted to engage cams on the outer surfaces of the end frames. It has also shoulders at a. on its outer surfaces, adjoining the inner ends ofthejournals and directly opposite to the booklike projections on the ends of the journals, and which are adapted to engage or bind the inner surfaces of the end frames.

E E are the wringer end frames. Each of them is provided with staples at its upper extremity to engage the hooks of the top crossbar, B, and with a slot and cam near its lower extremity adapted to engage the cross-bar G.

F is the clamp for attaching the wringer to a tub or other suitable article.

D is the shield or guide for the clothes. It

is provided with journals and its ends are cut away on their outer and under surfaces adjoining the journals. The end frames, E E, are correspondently cut away on their inner surfaces, and provided with shoulders, which serve as the bearingsurfaces to the shield. By these means the shield is held loosely pivoted between the end frames of the wringer, so that it may be turned up against the rolls or outward in a horizontal position, as may be desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a clothes-wringer, the arched bracebar B B, provided with upturned hooks atits 7o adjoining the journals and opposite the books of the journals, in combination with the end frames, E E, provided with slots and cam-surfaces near their lower extremities, whereby the parts are held in detachable connection, substantially as set forth.

3. In a clothes-wringer, the arched bracebar B B, provided with upturned books at its opposite extremities, in combination with the binding-brace or cross-bar G, provided with journals and projecting shoulders on its outer go surfaces, adjoining the journals, and hook-like projections on the outer ends of the journals, opposite the shoulders, and the end frames, E E, provided with staples at their upper extremities, and with slots andcam-surfaces near their lower extremities, whereby all the parts of the wringer-frame are held in detachable connection, substantially as set forth.

4. In a elothes-wringer, the guide or shield D, provided with journals and portions cut away adjoining the journals on the outer and under surface of its ends, in combination with the end frames, E E, provided with notches and shoulders on their inner lower surfaces, whereby the shield is pivoted in the wringer-frame, so as to turn up against the i rollers or outward into a horizontal position to guide the clothes, substantially as set forth. 10

JAMES TODD.

Witnesses:

G. O. CONVERSE, H. T. MORRIS, J AMES BRADLEY. 

